[Sherman Logan]

In fact, the problem was with George III, as he said then, as Thomas Jefferson was to say six months later, and as today’s historians must acknowledge as well. George III was a tyrant, acting against his colonies as he could not act at home, and so he, and he alone, had sown the seeds of his empire’s very destruction.

George III did not have an intentionally tyrannical bone in his body. Much like his contemporary Louis XVI, he was one of the most decent human beings ever to occupy a throne.

The author touches on the real cause of the conflict, an astonishingly profound ignorance of America by the King and the entire British ruling class.